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Victor Donas M.D.
Victor Donas M.D.
When Our Homeland Becomes An Ominous Place
Victor Doñas, M.D. Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst,, Subspecialist in liason psychiatry (psychosomatics). Founder and first head of staff of Liason Psychiatry and Perinatal Mental Health Unit, Hospital San Jose, Santiago, Chile. Former attached teacher on Psychiatry, Psychopatolgy and Liason Psychiatry Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Santiago, Universidad Andres Bello, Instituto Psiquiátrico José Horwitz Barak. Former member of chilean IARPP Chapter Board (2016-2020), Co-founder of IARPP´s International Collective Space. Member of ILAS group. Author of published articles In Intenational and National Articules Journals in the interfield of Psychoanalysis, Relationality and Social Theory. Attached Teacher Diploma IARPP México-Contemporánep. Atteched Teacher Course Introduction to Relational Psychoanalysis IARPP Buenos Aires. Private practice as Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst at Santiago, Chile during the last 23 years. Musician.

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Earl Hopper, Ph.D.
Earl Hopper, Ph.D.
Earl Hopper, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, group analyst, certified group therapist, and organisational consultant in private practice in London. A Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, an Honorary Member of the Group Analytic Society International, and an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis, he is a supervisor and training analyst for many psychotherapy organizations in England. He is alos a former President of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP), and a former Chairman of the Association of Independent Psychoanalysts of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He participates in the governance and training programs of many local and international organisations. The author and editor of many publications in these fields, Dr Hopper is the Editor of the New International Library of Group Analysis for Routledge.

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Marie Saba, M.A.
Marie Saba, M.A.
Peru
My name is Marie Saba, MA in psychoanalysis, working in my private practice as psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. Founder President of the IARPP Peruvian Chapter, from 2017 until 2021.
I founded Espacio Gradiva publishing house, which specializes in the publication of mental health books. I have been in charge of the translation of several books by relational authors such as Lewis Aron and Galit Atlas, Dramatic Dialogues (Dialogos Dramáticos), Galit Atlas´s Enigma of Desire (El Enigma del deseo), Daniel Shaw, Traumatic Narcisism (Narcisismo Traumático), Andrew Samuels A New Therapy for Politics.
This year we will present the translation of Donnel Stern's The Infinity of the Unsaid, Galit Atlas's When minds meet, the work of Lewis Aron, and Robert Grossmark's The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst.
For the last four years I have been teaching a weekly workshop on literature and relational psychoanalysis.

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Carmine Schettini, MD
Carmine Schettini, MD
Italy
Carmine Schettini, M.D., Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst ISIPSE’; he lives and works in Rome, Italy.
He has been working for three decades in a Public Department of Mental Heath, specifically with psychotic patients and with groups of parents of serious patients.
Faculty Member of the Institute ISIPSE’ (Institute of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis);
Member of the IARPP Board of Directors (International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychoterapy).
Co-Chair and Board liason of the IARPP Webinar Committee.
Member of the Local Committee for the International IARPP Conferences in 2005 and 2016.
Member of the IAPSP (International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology).

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Stavros Charalabides, MSc, CGP
Stavros Charalabides, MSc, CGP
Mr.
Stavros Charalambides is a relational psychoanalyst and certified group psychotherapist, elected Iarpp Board of Directors member since 2018. He Co-Chairs the Iarpp special interest group regarding Couples, Families, and Groups with Gila Ofer. He has founded and directed the Greek Institute for Relational and Group Psychotherapy since 2016. He runs 8 groups per week, supervises intensely groups and individuals. He is Director and Founder of 4 different programs regarding Relational Psychoanalysis and Group Psychotherapy at Greece. His latest book (2022), the ‘Envy Executioner’ has been published in Greek by Disigma Publications. He edited the first collective book -in Greek- of relational psychoanalysis and group dynamics (published by Disigma Publications ,July 2023). His main interest in his writings and presentations relates to sibling dynamics, envy, mourning and hatred in the transference and countertransference , in the analytic dyad, the family, inter-organizational group processes , the Institutions , the small ,medium and large groups , the society and the multicultural world .

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Haim Weinberg, PhD
Haim Weinberg, PhD
Dr. Weinberg is a licensed psychologist in California (PSY 23243) & Israel, in private practice in Sacramento, California, with more than 35 years of experience. He is also a group analyst and Certified Group Psychotherapist. He is past President of the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy and of the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society, and list-owner of the group psychotherapy professional online discussion forum. Dr. Weinberg was the Academic Vice-President of the Professional School of Psychology in which he created and coordinates an online doctoral program in group psychotherapy and marital therapy. He published books on Internet groups and about Fairy Tales and the Social Unconscious, and co-edited a book about the large group and a series of books about the social unconscious. He is on the clinical faculty of Psychiatry at UC Davis Medical Center and Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and of the International Group Psychotherapy Association, as well as a Distinguished Fellow of the Israeli Group Psychotherapy Association. He has received several awards including the Harold Bernard Group Psychotherapy Training Award and the Ann Alonso Award for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Therapy.

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Sally Swartz, Ph.D., M.S., M.A.
Sally Swartz, Ph.D., M.S., M.A.
South Africa
I am an active (and founding) member of the Cape Town Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (CTPSP) group, a psychoanalytic group that meets monthly, and runs various kinds of training for practitioners. I was a member of teaching faculty for their advanced training over the past 3 years, and offered course and open seminars on relational psychoanalysis. I have a psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice, and am a senior supervisor. I have run a course on Winnicott and his legacy for qualified practitioners (3 two-hour seminars, 30+ participants), and will run it again in 2018. I serve on the Curriculum Committee that sets readings for discussion year by year.

I am a member of International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), and have presented papers at their annual conferences (two plenaries). I have also been on the panels of two IARPP online colloquia.

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Hilary Offman, MD, FRCPC
Hilary Offman, MD, FRCPC
Canada
Hilary Offman, MD FRCPC is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in Toronto, Canada and with hospital appointments at the University Health Network and St. Michael’s Hospital at theDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. She is a faculty member and supervisor of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TICP) where she received her analytic training. She is also a lecturer and supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto where she supervises senior psychiatry residents. As well, she is former co-chair of the Candidates Committee for the International Association of Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (IARPP) and is a current member of the IARRP Board of Directors. She has presented her work at IARPP conferences, Division 39 Annual Conferences, the International Health Humanities Consortium, the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Educators (IFPE) and the International Literary Arts and Health Humanities Conference.
Hilary’s writing is published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Transgender Quarterly. Her most recent paper, “The Otherness of Fat- An Intersectional Enactment of Epic Proportions” is being published in Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Her papers, “The Princess and the Penis” and “The Queering of a Cisgender Psychoanalyst” are used to teach about working psychoanalytically with patients who identify as non-binary. She knits simple projects with yarn that istoo expensive. Her husband is a paediatrician and neonatologist in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto. Her golden doodle Steve supervises her in her office, and her son comes home from university periodically for elaborate meals.

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Liat Ariel, M.A.
Liat Ariel, M.A.
Israel
Clinical Psychologist, supervisor and Group Analyst

Individual and group psychotherapy and supervision at Rambam Medical Care Center and private practice, Haifa, Israel.

Chairperson of the managing committee of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis (IIGA).
Head of Psychological Service, Rambam Healthcare Campus.
Coordinator of the emergency and crisis team support committee, Rambam Healthcare Campus
and chief group coordinator for the Psychological Service in Rambam Medical Care Center, Haifa.
Academic manager of the Psychotherapy Program in Medicine Faculty, Technion, Haifa.

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Christina Emanuel, PsyD
Christina Emanuel, PsyD
USA
Christina Emanuel is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Pasadena, California. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst and faculty member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. Christina writes, teaches, and presents on topics related to autism, disability, and relational psychoanalysis.

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Garth Stevens, PhD
Garth Stevens, PhD
Garth Stevens is a Professor and Clinical Psychologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. His research interests include foci on race, racism and related social asymmetries; critical violence studies; applied psychoanalytic theorising of contemporary socio-political issues; and historical/collective trauma and memory. He has published widely in these areas, both nationally and internationally, including co-editorships of A ‘race’ against time: Psychology and challenges to deracialisation in South Africa (UNISA Press, 2006); Race, memory and the apartheid archive: Towards a transformative psychosocial praxis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); and Decoloniality and epistemic justice in contemporary community psychology (Springer, 2021). He was the co-lead researcher on the Apartheid Archive Project, which was an international research initiative that aimed to examine the nature of the experiences of racism of South Africans under the old apartheid order and their continuing effects on individual and group functioning in contemporary South Africa. He is also the co-lead researcher on the Violent States, States of Violence Project, which aims to re-engage a theorisation of violence in the contemporary world. At present, he is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), serves as the Dean in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand, and is President of the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA).

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Joyce Slochower, PhD, ABPP
Joyce Slochower, PhD, ABPP
USA
Joyce Slochower Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY. Joyce is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program, the Steven Mitchell Center, the National Training Program of NIP (all in New York), Philadelphia Center for Relational Studies and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco. She is on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ricerca Psicoanalitica and Perspectives in Psychoanalysis and is on the Board of the IARPP. Joyce has published over 100 articles on various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and technique. Second Editions of her two books, Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (1996) and Psychoanalytic Collisions (2006), were released in 2014 by Routledge. She is co-Editor, with Lew Aron and Sue Grand, of “De-idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique from Within” and “Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique ( Routledge, 2018). She is in private practice in New York City where she sees individuals and couples, runs supervision and study groups.

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Alejandro Avila-Espada, Ph.D, M.S.
Alejandro Avila-Espada, Ph.D, M.S.
Spain
Alejandro Ávila-Espada, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist & Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Full Professor & Chair (currently retired) of Psychotherapy at Madrid Complutense University (1984-1990 / 2004-2020) and University of Salamanca (1990-2004), both in Spain. Founder and Honor President of IARPP-Spain chapter. Member of the Board of Directors de IARPP (2011-2018). Member of IAPSP. Honor President and Training-Faculty Member of the Instituto de Psicoterapia Relacional (Madrid, Spain). Editor of the e-journal Clínica e Investigación Relacional, founded 2007. Between his books: La tradición interpersonal. Perspectiva social y cultural del psicoanálisis (Ágora Relacional, Madrid, 2013) [The Interpersonal Tradition. A Social and Cultural Perspective of Psychoanalysis]; and Relational Horizons: Mediterranean voices bring passion and reason to relational psychoanalysis (Astoria, NY: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018). Contact: avilaespada@psicoterapiarelacional.es More info and selected papers can be retrieved at the web page: www.psicoterapiarelacional.es/paginaspersonales/AlejandroAvilaEspada.aspx

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Donna Bassin, Ph.D., M.Sc, M.A
Donna Bassin, Ph.D., M.Sc, M.A
USA
Donna Bassin, M.P.S, Ph.D. is an art therapist, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, filmmaker and exhibiting fine-art photographer. She is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Faculty at The Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies in New York. She has a private psychoanalytic practice in New York City. She has published books, book reviews, and journal articles in the areas of gender, motherhood, community activism, traumatic loss, mourning and memorials, exhibited her fine art photography in museums, and galleries and screened her award-winning full-length documentary, Leave No Soldier, at many professional conferences and international film festivals. She was a consultant for New York City’s Department of Mental Health following September 11. Dr. Bassin was an original co-founder of Frontline Arts, a veteran’s art-making community. Her film, The Mourning After, was awarded a 2014 PEP Video grant. Most recently, Dr. Bassin was selected as a recipient for the 2021 New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship in Photography.Her solo 2021 photographic exhibition at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City, My Own Witness: Rupture and Repair explored the human desire for reconciliation in the wake of social fractures. By Our Own Hand, an installation designed by Dr. Bassin in collaboration with Frontline Arts, will be shown at the Montclair Art Museum in September 2021. Inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, it will consist of handmade paper made from military uniforms to serve as a reflective space.

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Cristina Bonnuci, PsyD
Cristina Bonnuci, PsyD
Italy
Cristina Bonucci. I was born in 1955 in Rome, where I have always lived and worked. I was raised in a home where books abounded and soon discovered on a shelf of my father’s bookcase “Introduction to the Study of Psychoanalysis” standing next to the classics of literature: Plato, Aristotle, Homer, and then Tolstoj, Dostoevskij, Kafka, Flaubert, Defoe, Dickens, etc…In choosing my profession I was no doubt influenced by literature, especially fiction. Indeed, I am convinced that writers have a great deal to teach psychoanalysts and I believe that the phenomenon of narrating and listening implies transforming experiences that take place especially inside relationships. I received my analytic training at the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis; (IPA) my studies then veered towards contemporary psychoanalytic models, mainly coming from North America. I am currently a teacher and supervisor at ISIPsè in Rome, where I teach the intersubjective perspective of Stolorow, Atwood, Brandschaft and Orange; furthermore, I conduct creative writing and psychoanalysis workshops with a special focus on the application of psychoanalytic theories to clinical practice. In my work, I am especially interested in difficult therapeutic relationships and for about a year now, in collaboration with my colleague Aurelia  Mozzetta, at Isipsé I have been coordinating a group that engages in the reading, discussion and study of clinical cases which require significant changes in the setting. For over fifteen years, I have been working in the area of first consultations and referrals and together with some IPA colleagues I participate in studying the criteria for the assessment of the request for psychotherapeutic help. I have published articles on specialized journals on creative writing and psychoanalysis, as well as on consultation and referrals. I conduct selection interviews for the Isipsè training school that issues the licence to practice psychoanalytic psychotherapy and, among others, the question I most enjoying asking candidates involves their personal interests. In other words, whatever the candidate wishes to tell me about how he or she spends his or her time when he or she is not thinking, studying and practicing psychotherapy. As for me, besides fiction and the cinema, whenever I get the chance I enjoy skiing on the Dolomites. It is my great passion. The only activity that activates my sensorial self completely. No thoughts, just landscapes, scents, silence and the glide of my skiis. Then I cook, sing, study English. I devote myself to the people I love. Very, very briefly: this is who I am.

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Steven Kuchuck, DSW
Steven Kuchuck, DSW
USA
Dr. Steven Kuchuck is Senior Consulting Editor (formerly Editor-in-Chief) of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Co-Editor; Routledge Relational Perspectives Book Series, Immediate Past President of IARPP, faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Board Member, supervisor, faculty, at NIP, and faculty/supervisor at the NIP National Training Program, Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and other institutes. Dr. Kuchuck’s teaching and writing focus primarily on the clinical impact of the therapist’s subjectivity. His most recent book is The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (Confer Books, 2021).In 2015 and 2016 he won the Gradiva Award for best psychoanalytic book: Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Life Experience: When the Personal Becomes Professional and The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi: From Ghost to Ancestor (co-edited with Adrienne Harris). His clinical and supervisory practice is in Manhattan.

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Ilana Laor, PhD
Ilana Laor, PhD
Israel
Ilana Laor, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and group analyst. Currently she is a board member and the president of the Israeli chapter of IARPP.  Laor teaches and supervises at the Psychotherapy Program: core and relational track at Tel Aviv University, Sackler School of Medicine. Laor also initiated a special project called "Chavruta" (ancient Hebrew for "in company"), at the relational track Tel Aviv University. For four consecutive years she conducted the project, bringing together artists, writers, film directors, bible scholars, judges, and brain researchers, who met with psychoanalytically oriented professionals, in order to share thoughts and hold discussions that were of mutual benefit.

She was the former owner and Director of Ramat Aviv Institute, a private clinic certified by the Israel Ministry of Health for internship in clinical psychology, for analytical therapy for children and adults, individual, group, and couple therapy, relationally oriented.  She writes on the relational consulting room, and the analytic process and has been published in professional journals, in both English and Hebrew and has published 3 'relational' children's books. She is in private practice in Tel Aviv.

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Susanna Federici, PhD
Susanna Federici, PhD
Italy
She presented her works at the IARPP conferences; at the IAPSP conferences; at MIP Institute in Boston; at ICP in Toronto; at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalyis in Tel Aviv; at ABEPPS Associacao Brasileira para o Estudo da Psicologia Psicanalitica do Self – Sociedade Psicanalitica di Rio de Janeiro. She was co-chair of the Fourth European Conference on Self Psychology held in Rome in 2006. She was guest speaker at the 6° Reunion Anual de IARPP Espana (Valencia 2015). She was co-chair of the IARPP 13th Annual Conference “The Arts of Time: Relational Psychoanalysis and Forms of Vitality in Clinical Process” hel in Rome June 9-12, 2016.

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Gill Straker, PhD
Gill Straker, PhD
Gill Straker is a clinical professor in the School of Psychology at Sydney University and a visiting research professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. She is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, co-director of the Centre for Applied Studies in Psychotherapy and Counselling (CASPC) and is involved in several local and international training programmes. She has worked with UNHCR on programmes for refugees and survivors of torture and detention. She was involved in providing counselling services to individuals on the run from the Apartheid State and has published numerous articles in the field of continuing traumatic stress. She has published two books Faces in the Revolution co-authored with the Sanctuaries Counselling Team and the Talking Cure co-authored with Jacqui Winship. With Rachel Burton and Andy Geeves she has a podcast series entitled threeassociating.com adventures in relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy supervision.

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Rina Lazar, PhD
Rina Lazar, PhD
Israel (Moderator)
Rina Lazar, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist. She is a senior teacher and supervisor in the Core Program, the Relational Track and the Ph.D. Studies in Psychoanalysis and its Interfaces, the Program of Psychotherapy, School of Continuing Medical Education, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. She was one of the chairpersons of this program, a board member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) and the first chairperson of the Israeli chapter of the IARPP (Israeli Forum of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy). She works in a private practice in Tel-Aviv.
Rina is the co-editor (with prof. Shlomo Biderman) in "Hakibutz Hameuchad" Publishing House of two books "Desire" and "The Blind spot". She edited a book called "Talking about Evil" (Lazar, 2017). The book was published by Routledge in the RBP series.
Rina Lazar published papers in various psychoanalytic journals on topics such as: psychoanalysis versus psychotherapy, the dynamics of change, repetition compulsion, the work of the unconscious, subject, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, knowing hatred, the mother's sacrificing her off-springs, the dead mother, intimacy, mourning and melancholy revisited from multiple perspectives, meeting otherness, the therapeutic tale and its political context .

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Neetu Sarin, PhD
Neetu Sarin, PhD
India
Dr Neetu Sarin (PhD) is Faculty at the School of Human studies, Ambedkar University Delhi.

She works clinically with people suffering from psychosis, personality disorders and dissociative disorders. She teaches courses on the body, listening, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and gender to the graduate programs in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Her doctoral work is in the field of states of dissociation and intergenerational transmission of trauma. She particularly likes the use of myths, fables and tales and their relationship with the psyche-soma. She was recently awarded the prestigious 'Sudhir Kakar prize' (2016) for best psychoanalytic writing under 40. She spends her free time designing aesthetics, nurturing her relationships and plants.

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